Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins

1922 - 1944  (22 years)

• Name	Joseph Gérald Jacques Desjardins  [1, 2]
  Birth	9 Mar 1922	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Baptism	12 Mar 1922	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Address: 385 Sussex Dr
  	Notre-Dame
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1940	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Address: 88 Guigues Street
  	see attestation paper
  Enlisted	1 Jun 1943	Kinston, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Death	11 Jun 1944	Calvados, France,
  Obittuary	29 Jun 1944	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	The Ottawa Journal
  FACT	Army
  FACT	C/121371
  FACT	Le Regiment de la Chaudière, R.C.I.C.  [2]
  Burial	Calvados, France,   [2]
  	BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: VIII. H. 9. Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery. It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery. There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
  Person ID	I124774	Lower Town
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Baptiste Hervé Desjardins,   b. Abt 1876, Québec, Canada d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Dora Roy,   b. Abt 1881, Ontario, Canada d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	9 Jan 1912	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Address: Notre-Dame
  Family ID	F33333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  [2] Son of Herve and Dora Desjardins, of Ottawa, Ontario [2] Commemorated on Page 290 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance . Request a copy

  
  

• Sources

  [S3346] 4 Mar 2021 (Reliability: 3). Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1802-1967 Ottawa Basilique Notre Dame 1919-1928 [S3438] (Reliability: 3). The Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM) [S3521] (Reliability: 3). [S4] page 235.